Announcements
31.05.2023 Shanghai University, Center for the History of Global Development

The series of Contemporary European History, published by de Gruyter, Berlin, asks about the agency that has formed Europe during the last century. Its focus is on the people who have shaped the continent through their work, their activism or simply through the ways they have organized their lives and on the processes these activities have spawned.
Within the series, the volume Doing Health in Europe intends to explore who created health in Europe during the last century.

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Reviews
Rev. by Constanze Blum, Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Universität Leipzig

Aktuell zeichnen sich Umbrüche in der Rezeption afrikanischer Literatur in Europa ab. Der Literaturnobelpreis wurde 2021 an den tansanischen Autor Abulrazak Gurnah verliehen. Im gleichen Jahr erhielt die simbabwische Autorin Tsitsi Dangarembga den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. In Berliner Buchläden findet sich heute afrikanische und diasporische Literatur nicht selten als gut sortiertes, eigenständiges Themenfeld.

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Journals

Every Book an Adventure: The Walter Markov Prize Turns 30
Ed. by Katja Castryck-Naumann and Matthias Middell

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Articles
By Katharina Wiedlack, University of Vienna; Masha Godovannaya, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Ruthia Jenrbekova, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Iain Zabolotny, University of Vienna

Introduction [1]

In this paper, we present our art-based research methodology called “The Dream Machine” that aims at analyzing and supporting queer lives in different post-Soviet locations by offering safer ways of creating and archiving evidence of various queer forms of existence. We argue that the development of a new research methodology that draws on art practices and approaches rather than on more conventional tools and methods of academic research became crucial during the last decade due to the increase in homo- and transphobic violence in post-Soviet regions and the surge in precariousness that LGBTIQAP+ visibility and transparency create.

We come from different post-Soviet and Western spaces, such as Kazakhstan, Russia and Austria, and various backgrounds, such as queer-feminist activism, research, performance and experimental film, and, thus, analyze the situation from different perspectives.

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Conference Reports
01.12.2022 - 03.12.2022 Peter Becker / Julia Bavouzet, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
By Daniel Gunz, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien

Bereits zum 15. Mal veranstaltete das Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung der Universität Wien seine Jahrestagung. Die Organisator:innen ermöglichten durch die Schwerpunkte empire, state und global einen breiten thematischen Zugang zur Imperienforschung der Habsburgermonarchie.

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